Arti Grover, is a Senior Economist at the World Bank’s Finance, Competitiveness and Innovation Global Practice and a co-author of the book on High-growth firms. She has extensive experience in working on complex analytical projects on a range of topics including firm dynamics, trade, productivity, entrepreneurship and spatial development. She is the author of two books on trade in services (published by the…
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Denis Medvedev is a lead economist in the Firm Capabilities and Innovation unit of the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice at the World Bank Group. His current research interests focus on innovation and firm productivity, while his earlier work explored international trade, income distribution dynamics, and the Sustainable Development Goals. In his previous assignments at the…
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Cristina Fernández, focuses on integrating policymakers into startup ecosystems across the world, creating platforms for them to exchange ideas with other nations’ policymakers in order to identify the best ways to unleash entrepreneurship. In every initiative, she seeks to integrate the best research in the field to better guide policymaking. In every initiative, Cristina liaises closely with the policymakers and…
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Alex Coad, is Professor at CENTRUM-Católica Graduate Business School (Lima, Peru), and is interested in research areas of firm performance, entrepreneurship, strategy, and innovation policy. Alex has published over 60 articles in international peer-reviewed journals, such as Economica, Journal of Business Venturing, Research Policy, and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics. According to Google-…
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Helen Durham has been Director of International Law and Policy at the ICRC since 2014. She has over 20 years experience in the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. Helen has been a Legal Adviser to the ICRC Delegation of the Pacific; Head of Office for ICRC Australia and in various roles with Australian Red Cross including Director of International Law and Strategy and National Manager of IHL.…
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Volker Türk is UNHCR’s Assistant High Commissioner for Protection, having previously served as the Director of the Division of International Protection from September 2009 to February 2015. From April 2008 to September 2009, he was Director for Organizational Development and Management in Geneva, leading UNHCR’s structural and management change process. From 1991 to March 2008, he occupied…
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Anne Kabagambe serves as the Alternate Executive Director for Africa Group 1 at the World Bank Group, Washington DC. She is an international development and finance professional who prior to this appointment served for 27 years at the African Development Bank, ending her career as Chef de Cabinet . Ms. Kabagambe holds two Masters’ Degrees from Columbia University in New York City, and the…
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As the Country Director of SEND GHANA Mr. George Osei-Bimpeh is responsible for running all facets of the organisation. George has a proven executive management track record and over 12 years of experience in research and civil society activism, driving growth in the programmatic areas, funding base and policy influencing space. George was appointed the Country Director of SEND-GHANA in February…
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Juan Pablo Guerrero is the Network Director of the Global Initiative for Fiscal Transparency , a multi-stakeholder action network to advance fiscal transparency, public participation and accountability in countries around the world. He was a founding Commissioner of the Federal Institute for Access to Information & Data Protection in Mexico (2002-2009), where he subsequently was the Secretary…
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Jessica Goldberg is an Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Maryland and an Affiliate of the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab and the Bureau for Research and Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD). Her research interests are in development and labor economics. Currently, she is working on field experiments about credit and savings in Malawi and Bangladesh, the effect of…
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